{"id":12561,"date":"2017-11-14T22:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T06:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2017-11-14T23:09:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T07:09:27","slug":"2017-11-14-closed-minded-people-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12561","title":{"rendered":"2017-11-14 Closed Minded People And Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group thread discussing C. K. refusal to pledge allegiance to the flag.<\/p>\n<p>Rich Gallego<\/p>\n<p>By your your way of thinking, then almost no one should vote. &nbsp;Because most of those who think they should vote because they believe they&#8217;re informed should also not vote. &nbsp;They&#8217;re just as much MISinformed as they are informed.<\/p>\n<p>You think I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about? &nbsp;Just go ask the average &#8216;informed&#8217; person if he or she has been informed about *both* sides of the story. &nbsp;You&#8217;ll seldom if ever find someone who has. &nbsp;Almost everyone is closed minded.<\/p>\n<p>Ike was right: &#8220;Those who are not in the middle of the road are in the gutter.&#8221;<br \/>\nRich Gallego said: &nbsp;&#8220;.. what happens when a large segment of voters know very little about today&#8217;s policy debates or even the basic workings of American government?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can already see what happens. &nbsp;The approval ratings of Congress are below 20 percent. &nbsp;Boss Tweet&#8217;s approval ratings are the lowest of any president for this time in office. &nbsp;It already happened: people who don&#8217;t have a clue elected officials who don&#8217;t know &#8211; or don&#8217;t care &#8211; about policy, and ignore the basic workings of American government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FB group thread discussing C. K. refusal to pledge allegiance to the flag. Rich Gallego By your your way of thinking, then almost no one should vote. &nbsp;Because most of those who think they should vote because they believe they&#8217;re informed should also not vote. &nbsp;They&#8217;re just as much MISinformed as they are informed.<a href=\"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=12561\"> <\/p>\n<p> (Read More&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12563,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions\/12563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}